Narrow linewidth fiber laser for 100-km optical frequency domain reflectometry

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1827-1829

  Geng, Jihong ^a   Spiegelberg, Christine ^a   Jiang, Shibin ^a  

^a NP PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; Frequency modulation; Laser radar; Rayleigh scattering

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL RADAR; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFLECTOMETERS;

FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE (FMCW) MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OFDR); OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OTDR);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 27144545410     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.853258     Document Type: Article

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